Identifier: georgiahistorica00geor (find matches)
Title: Georgia, historical and industrial
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Georgia. Dept. of Agriculture Stevens, O. B. (Obediah B.) Wright, R. F. (Robert F.)
Subjects: Georgia -- History Georgia -- Economic conditions
Publisher: Atlanta, Ga. : G.W. Harrison, State Printer
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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cantaloupes, itsstrawberry beds, dewberries and blackberries in abundance; and some ofthem have also their raspberry bushes. Mr. J. H. Hale of Connecticut, who was in charge of the HorticulturalDepartment of the eleventh census, in a speech at Mirmeapolis at a meet-ing of the American Association of Nurserymen, said, concerning thegreat peach sectiom of Georgia: It is a magnificent soil, easy to work,and the peach-trees going down into that red clay, it does produce finecolored peaches, and they look better and taste better than those of Cali-fornia. The Boston Herald in an editorial pronounced the Georgia peachsuperior to that of California and to all others. The Chicago Recordsaid :The fanciest peach that comes to Chicago is the Georgia Elberta,.... richer than a bowl of fresh cream. The New York Tribune said: They are larger than the peaches pro-duced for this market on the Delaware peninsula and in New Jersey, andby universal consent much more delicious than the northern fruit. In
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ELBERTA PEACH. One of the largest and most esteemed of all yellow fleshed peaches ; tree vigorous andproductive ; a valuable acquisition. GEORGIA: HISTORICAL AND INDUSTRIAL. 243 an editorial on A Nations Debt to Georgia, the New York Worldsaid: ^The more northern States of this country have long had a deepsense of their obligation to the State of Georgia for its devotion to thecultivation of the watermelon. This debt is now increased by the suc-cess of the Georgia peach crop, which has this year been sufficient todrive out of the Eastern market the beautiful but tasteless peach of Cali-fornia. The following is an extract from an article which appeared in theChicago Tribune of Thursday, March 7, 1901, regarding the peach cropof the country: While the bulk of the Georgia yield goes to New Yorkand other eastern markets, Chicago is favored annually with a steadilyincreasing percentage, and fruit men agree in pronouncing the Georgiapeach as by all means the best in point of size, flavor an

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